What Zeppelin album should I try next?

^^ Grows on you? It's Led Zeppelin.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - November 27 2012 at 22:11

HarbouringTheSoul wrote: In my book, the filler constitutes "Boogie with Stu", "Black Country Woman" and the excessive length of "In My Time of Dying" and "Trampled Under Foot". I also can't stand "Night Flight", but that's not really filler.

BCW is awesome, so is Night Flight and Trampled, and Dying grows on you ( that killer rock jam in the middle)

Yeah, the lyrics are what bug me. 

Dayvenkirq wrote: Atavachron wrote: The only questionable cut is 'Boogie with Stu'. Isn't that a Richie Valens tune? Why do you think it's questionable?

I think it's a great blues song, with the Rolling Stone's Ian Stewart playing boogie-woogie piano (hence the title, "Boogie with Stu"), and a splendid mandolin riff by Page. Zeppelin added "Mrs. Valens" in the song credits because part of the song was from Richie Valen's' "Ooh, My Head". Zeppelin had heard that Valens' mom had never received royalties for any of Richie's songs, so they decided to include her. Unfortunately the publishing company that owned all of Valens' copyrights (and left his mother out) sued to get their piece as well, or as Jimmy Page explained:

"What we tried to do was give Ritchie's mother credit, because we heard she never received any royalties from any of her son's hits, and Robert did lean on that lyric a bit. So what happens? They tried to sue us for all of the song!"






Edited by The Dark Elf - November 27 2012 at 10:34

^ Second half of CD 2, starting from Night Flight. But since I'm a LZ fan I don't mind listening to them and I even enjoy them, but definitely not as good as the rest. 

smartpatrol wrote: PG is a mixed bag for me; lots of fantastic songs but about half of the album is meh.

Of out curiosity, which ones did you find meh? This is an album where most people seem to agree that is has filler but disagree which songs are actually the filler.

In my book, the filler constitutes "Boogie with Stu", "Black Country Woman" and the excessive length of "In My Time of Dying" and "Trampled Under Foot". I also can't stand "Night Flight", but that's not really filler.

I also used to be of the mind that Phys had filler, whether in material or what seemed like an attempt to stretch certain passages.   But over time I realized that's mostly nonsense and that the album is truly one of the greatest in rock history.   No one else had nearly the balls or skills to do anything like it and the fact that every second is not gold is irrelevant.   The only questionable cut is 'Boogie with Stu'.

I don't like a lot of live albums

Thanks for all your recommendations.

Zep I and II are my faves. Powerful blues and acoustic tunes, rawer in production, just great.